Liverpool all but secured their spot in the Champions League quarter-finals with a stunning display in Portugal on Wednesday night.

Jurgen Klopp’s side took Portuguese league leaders apart, running out 5-0 winners in the first leg of their second round tie.

Sadio Mane was at his best with a hat-trick, while Roberto Firmino and Mohamed Salah continued their outstanding goalscoring form, bagging their 21st and 30th goals of the season respectively.

Jurgen Klopp, manager of Liverpool

And the win was so good, it even prompted an extremely rare tweet from Liverpool’s owner, John W Henry, reports the Liverpool Echo.

Henry only sporadically uses his Twitter account, and it’s even more uncommon for the American to tweet directly about the reds.

His last Liverpool-related tweet was all the way back in April 2016 following a win over Everton in the Merseyside Derby, but the owner broke his social media silence last night to comment on what was a stunning performance.

Henry tweeted: “Tremendous effort in 5-0 win tonight away from home in Champions League. A lot of talent displaying selfless, smart play we all can be proud of. Huge, satisfying step toward final eight.”

What a win that was by Liverpool against Porto, and what a celebration by Robert Firmino.

Sadio Mane fired in a hat-trick in Portugal, and there were further goals for Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino as a quarter-final place was all but secured.

Okay, it was very much secured.

And while Mane hit the heights with his hat-trick, Firmino's epic celebration also caught fans' attentions.

The Brazilian launched into one of his trademark kung fu kicks, only it seemed to last forever, as he twirled and kicked away to his hearts' content.

And the reason he celebrates like that is quite simple: because he would like to be doing something much more acrobatic.

Speaking to Liverpool's website last month month, he said: "When I was a kid, I used to do a goal celebration that was a back-flip,"

"I did it a lot when I was younger. It's something I wanted to do [again], but maybe it's best not to try! I did it up to four years ago, but not anymore!"

TV deal

Sky have paid £3.579billion for their packages across the three seasons, BT have splashed £885million for theirs.

But what does this mean for you, the guy sitting on his sofa week-in, week-out spending their hard earned cash on watching football from the comfort of their own living room.

Should you quit your BT subscription and never look back? Or rip off you Sky dish off the side of your house? Or just carry on opening your wallet up to the TV giants?

With 160 of the 200 available live games a season bagged by BT and Sky, how is the picture looking for the Premier League's army of armchair supporters?

Here, Press Association Chief Sports Reporter Matt Slater explains when fans will need to take charge of the remote control.

Sky Sports subscribers - relax it's more of the same

Relax, your direct debits have been used to good effect and there is no urgent need for the company to raise them, either.

The company has claimed four of the five packages to have been sold already this week, a haul that adds up to 128 games a season from Friday evenings to Monday nights, two more a season than it has in the current three-year deal.

The cornerstone of the Sky Sports package remains Sunday afternoons - 32 games at 2pm and 32 more at 4.30pm, with 19 of the weekends' best games at that later slot.

Nearly half of those early Sunday games will be second picks, too, so Sky can create big double-header days if it chooses, particularly over the festive period and later in the season.

But Sky has also taken the 5.30pm slot on Saturday afternoons from BT and will put 15 first-pick games on then, which means Sky will have the top game every weekend of the season.

On top of that, the broadcaster got 24 games it can either show at 7.30pm on Fridays or 8pm on Mondays, and eight games in a new Saturday prime-time slot of 7.45pm, which will either cause fights or drive sales of Sky Multiscreen.

BT Sport subscribers - get ready to change your habits (...slightly)

It's as you were, in that the telecom giant is reverting to its old 12.30pm slot on Saturday, a change from the current offering at 5.30pm.

The majority of these games should be good, too, as 20 of them will be second picks. There will, however, be a few for the committed and connoisseurs as 12 of them will be fifth-choice games.

Unlike Sky, BT can add a few more games, too, and it has said it is still interested in the two packages still available - two lots of entire matchdays, all shown simultaneously, one on a bank holiday and a midweek evening, and the other on two midweek evenings.

As it already does something similar with its midweek European nights, BT is the obvious home for at least one of these packages.

The other one? Well, the clubs and league really hoped Amazon would join the fray this time and perhaps it will try one of these as an experiment/shot across the bows of BT and Sky.

And good news for all...

There is one other hugely important thing - subscribers of both BT and Sky no longer have to choose or shell out for two subscriptions.

In December, in a relatively under-reported announcement, the two companies buried the hatchet and agreed to offer each other's channels to their respective customers.

You will pay, of course, but sports fans will only have to pay for the sport they want, as opposed to the full bundles.

That deal - or truce, really - was the clearest indication that the 'Wild West' days of the Premier League's domestic rights deals appear to be over, which is great news for shareholders in BT and Sky, if not football agents.

The latter, however, can console themselves in the fact there appears to be plenty of upside left in the overseas rights market.